Absolutism, Scientific Revolution, & Enlightenment

This ruler called himself the "Sun King"

• King George

• King Louis XIV

• King Francis

• King James

The sun is the center of the universe.

• Realism

• Science

• Geocentric

• Heliocentric

Believed all people are born free and equal with three natural rights.

• Hobbes

• Locke

• Rousseau

• Montesquieu

Influenced the creation of 3 branches of government, by supporting the separation of powers.

• Hobbes

• Montesquieu

• Locke

• Rousseau

Based on the "Divine Rights of Kings," if you disobey the king, you also disobey

• The Queen

• God

• The Pope

• Peasants

The rights of life, liberty, and property are called:

• Unalienable Rights

• Essential Rights

• Natural Rights

• Original Rights

An Unlimited Government where the king or queen have unlimited power

• Constitutional Monarchy

• Absolute Monarchy

• Democracy

• Dictatorship

This Enlightenment thinker believed in freedom of speech

• John Locke

• Rousseau

• Machiavelli

• Voltaire

If government fails to protect natural rights, what do the people have a right to do?

• People have no rights

• Elect a new dictator

• People have the right to overthrow the government and get a new one

• Have no government: anarchy.

How are the Renaissance and the Enlightenment similar?

• produced major cultural changes

• limited technological advancements

• encouraged traditional values

• ignored individual achievements